]]>https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/the-moxie-bee-buzzes-about-khadijah/feed/0Featured Image -- 108themoxiebeeChildren Make You Drinkhttps://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/children-make-you-drink/
https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/children-make-you-drink/#respondSun, 08 Nov 2015 08:10:37 +0000http://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/children-make-you-drink/A Thomas Point of View: It’s true. Children make you drink. Not when they are first-born. Nope, when they can walk and talk. I refused to believe it. I had the first time mommy bliss. You know…]]>

It’s true. Children make you drink. Not when they are first-born. Nope, when they can walk and talk. I refused to believe it. I had the first time mommy bliss. You know the delusion that this precious baby would never cause me stress. Wrong! Truly you may need alcohol to survive years 3-18 or a few “nerve pills” aka Vicodin from the headaches they may cause.

Munch is the best thing that ever happened to me. However, he can work my last dang nerve. Which was the case this week. He worked my nerves and I had to find the strength not to lose it. I was questioning my sanity. I realized that I’m too dang old to have children. I mean I’m 40. “God, please help me!” I cried out in frustration.

Munch and I have talked repeatedly about personal responsibility. He doesn’t have any. What does it mean?…

]]>https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/its-meet-and-greet-weekend-dream-big/feed/0themoxiebeeHow to Make a Cake out of Cupcakes: or How to Turn Your Essays into a Bookhttps://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/how-to-make-a-cake-out-of-cupcakes-or-how-to-turn-your-essays-into-a-book/
https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/how-to-make-a-cake-out-of-cupcakes-or-how-to-turn-your-essays-into-a-book/#respondThu, 05 Nov 2015 13:52:13 +0000http://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/how-to-make-a-cake-out-of-cupcakes-or-how-to-turn-your-essays-into-a-book/BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog: Steven Church shares his remarks from the recent NonfictioNow Conference panel “Hydra-Headed Memoirs and Well-Connected Essays: Negotiating Your Book-Length Nonfiction Thing,” wherein he pondered aloud about hearing that his own “book-length nonfiction thing,”…]]>

Steven Church shares his remarks from the recent NonfictioNow Conference panel “Hydra-Headed Memoirs and Well-Connected Essays: Negotiating Your Book-Length Nonfiction Thing,” wherein he pondered aloud about hearing that his own “book-length nonfiction thing,” was too fragmented and associative and didn’t have unifying narrative line; and, second, about the challenges of an MFA program, where we focus on teaching student how to write really great essays and then, in their last year, expect them to submit an entire unified “book-length nonfiction thing.”

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By Steven Church

Step 1: Learn to bake, from scratch, a couple of really good cupcakes—perfect little cakes that share the same basic form and thematic structure of a larger cake, the complete idea for which hasn’t actually formed completely in your head yet, but which exists just beneath the surface of your waking thoughts. Start small. If necessary, pay a lot of money to take some classes…

]]>https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/how-to-make-a-cake-out-of-cupcakes-or-how-to-turn-your-essays-into-a-book/feed/0themoxiebeeHalibun: In the Curve of the Crescenthttps://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/halibun-in-the-curve-of-the-crescent/
https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/halibun-in-the-curve-of-the-crescent/#commentsTue, 03 Nov 2015 21:28:39 +0000http://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/halibun-in-the-curve-of-the-crescent/Charlotte Hamrick: We walked along the levee, softly talking, grit crunching beneath our footsteps. A young couple vacated a wooden bench facing the river, walking away in tandem with fingers intertwined. We sat and watched a barge…]]>

Charlotte is one of favorite writers. I feel she is unsung, so I sing her whenever possible.

We walked along the levee, softly talking, grit crunching beneath our footsteps. A young couple vacated a wooden bench facing the river, walking away in tandem with fingers intertwined. We sat and watched a barge pushed along by a small, blustering tugboat leaving white-capped waves in its’ wake.

Seagulls dipped and skimmed the surface of the water, some emerging with silvery fish wriggling in their beaks. In the distance, the sun settled slowly over the city, glinting golden on steel and concrete skyscrapers while a blush of pink lit the cathedral spire.

Sky and water merge We, immersed in majesty The city bewitches

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Its Halibun Monday on dVerse Poets Pub. It’s been quite a long time since I’ve participated in their prompts and this one excited me. I’ve never written a Halibun. I read several that were linked to in the prompt and immediately wrote this one, inspired by…

]]>https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/halibun-in-the-curve-of-the-crescent/feed/1themoxiebeeSlowing Down:: Acknowledging Your Womb Wisdom:: 8 Delicious Ways to Be A Pussyhttps://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/slowing-down-acknowledging-your-womb-wisdom-8-delicious-ways-to-be-a-pussy/
https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/slowing-down-acknowledging-your-womb-wisdom-8-delicious-ways-to-be-a-pussy/#respondSat, 24 Oct 2015 22:23:24 +0000http://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/slowing-down-acknowledging-your-womb-wisdom-8-delicious-ways-to-be-a-pussy/sensualtantrichealing: Have you heard that expression, “a woman’s work is never done”, well, you have because it’s true. Women have more demands on them than any living creature I have ever known and are the most adept…]]>

Have you heard that expression, “a woman’s work is never done”, well, you have because it’s true. Women have more demands on them than any living creature I have ever known and are the most adept at juggling family life, career, health, hobbies, girlfriends, the emotional landscape of being woman, the societal demands on how we should look, and the pressures from our peers to be “Goddesses”. I use this term loosely, not because I don’t respect it as a word, nor because I don’t believe in the holy power of the goddess, She is definitely a living being. Starting with the ground we walk and the air we breathe. But I for one, am exhausted at how much I find myself running to keep up with everyone’s definition of what Goddess means, and what demands I have placed on myself to achieve this idea of perfection. To prove I…

]]>https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/slowing-down-acknowledging-your-womb-wisdom-8-delicious-ways-to-be-a-pussy/feed/0themoxiebeeHot Readshttps://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/hot-reads/
https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/hot-reads/#respondTue, 10 Mar 2015 13:14:28 +0000http://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/hot-reads/Charlotte Hamrick: It’s a gorgeous day in New Orleans – feels like Spring! I’m thinking about going to the river and snapping some photos but, honestly, I’m feeling quite content puttering around the house and yard and…]]>

It’s a gorgeous day in New Orleans – feels like Spring! I’m thinking about going to the river and snapping some photos but, honestly, I’m feeling quite content puttering around the house and yard and doing some online reading. I have a few links to share today of good reading I’ve done lately: a couple of Flash pieces, a few poems, and some blogs new to me that piqued my interest. Enjoy!

First , the blogs:

Leaf and Twig is a blog that combines two of my favorite things: poetry and photography. What could be more perfect? The poetry is original and the photography is dreamy and beautiful with lots of nature and landscapes. It’s like a visual meditation.

Artists Tell Their Stories highlights artists of various genres. We’re given a peek into their artistic journey, what inspires and motivates them, and learn about their process. It’s a great read.

]]>https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/hot-reads/feed/0themoxiebeeTop Lit Mags that REALLY do publish emerging writershttps://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/top-lit-mags-that-really-do-publish-emerging-writers/
https://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/top-lit-mags-that-really-do-publish-emerging-writers/#respondTue, 10 Mar 2015 03:16:00 +0000http://moxiebee.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/top-lit-mags-that-really-do-publish-emerging-writers/michaelalexanderchaney: Baltimore Review It is always nice to see a prestigious journal publish fresh, new voices. Such is the case on a routine basis for the Baltimore Review. Most recently, you can check out Priyatam Mudivarti’s “Blue…]]>

Baltimore Review It is always nice to see a prestigious journal publish fresh, new voices. Such is the case on a routine basis for the Baltimore Review. Most recently, you can check out Priyatam Mudivarti’s “Blue Flame.” It’s a beautifully weird and hauntingly rich story about aging, photography, and death:

At ninety-two, when I close my eyes and suck my breath, I see fire and ash, playing in smoke.

At the count of one hundred: a mountain, the remains of the cut down trees, a man with a beard and without any clothes, rotting under his limbs.

At one hundred and one, my body grows fiery, as if a log from the pyre rolled into my spine and burned my chest.

One hundred and seven. My heart comes to a full stop. I learned to stop my breath. My chest expands out of my ribs, stretches my neck.